All Quotes

What had disappointed me at the time of the last tour, was to go on a worldwide tour, we were at some incredible places and we couldn't enjoy it, hadn't the time.
‐‐ Ed O'Brien

What hadn't been realized in the literature until now is that merely to describe how severely something has been tested in the past itself embodies inductive assumptions, even as a statement about the past.
‐‐ Robert Nozick

What happen to the pirates we are supposed to see? Then we go down the chutes, and it's where the pirates were. But they're all gone. There is nothing but skeletons down here!
‐‐ John Hench

What happened after Katrina is that people were stirred to action; there were an enormous number of contributions by people trying to make a difference. But then we forget. We've forgotten Katrina victims, we've forgotten the face of poverty.
‐‐ Elizabeth Edwards

What happened after publication of our paper was that, for the next 40 years, people said, all right, we now know the answer to the capital structure question under ideal conditions.
‐‐ Merton Miller

What happened I think on Sept. 11 was we were given graphic and clear evidence that things had changed.
‐‐ Iain Duncan Smith

What happened in 2008 stopped people in their tracks. People stopped looking at their homes simply as commodities to exploit and starting thinking about how they might personalise that space and make them less bland and more autobiographical, and that's healthy, I think.
‐‐ Kevin McCloud

What happened in America in the 1860s was a war of secession, a war of independence, no different in principle from what happened in America in the 1770s and 1780s.
‐‐ L. Neil Smith

What happened in Pakistan was that people were told: You're all Muslim, so now you're a country. As we saw in 1971 with the Bangladesh secession, the answer to that was: 'Oh no, we're not.'
‐‐ Salman Rushdie

What happened in Queensland is that people are facing high unemployment relative to other states - 5.7 per cent when I last checked.
‐‐ Campbell Newman

What happened in the late Fifties, early Sixties in French cinema was a fantastic revolution. I was in Italy, but completely in love with the nouvelle vague movement, and directors like Godard, Truffaut, Demy. 'The Dreamers' was a total homage to cinema and that love for it.
‐‐ Bernardo Bertolucci

What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded. The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

What happened in the past is just that, the past. Champion or not.
‐‐ Steve Nash

What happened is, when I was doing 'Taxi,' the last year, we did this thing where we had on top hats and tails, and we pretended to tap-dance. And I said to myself, 'You know, I always wanted to know how to do this.' So I got myself a teacher, and I started studying, and I got hooked.
‐‐ Tony Danza

What happened on September 11 compels us to focus on who we are as Americans, what we stand for, what really matters in our lives - family, friends, faith and freedom.
‐‐ Bob Taft

What happened on September 11th is at least, theoretically, small stuff compared to what can happen.
‐‐ Robert D. Kaplan

What happened? The Country got sick of it and said, Enough is enough. And all over the Country we saw springing up community organizations determined to do something about this terrible menace of drugs.
‐‐ Barry McCaffrey

What happened to Haiti is a threat that could happen anywhere in the Caribbean to these island nations, you know, because of global warming, because of climate change and all this.
‐‐ Danny Glover

What happened to me in Somalia doesn't define me.
‐‐ Amanda Lindhout

What happened to me is I gained a little weight so I could be more accessible to people. They're not like, 'Oh my God, he's, like, a male model comedian; yuck, ugh.' It's like, 'Oh, he's a little squishy; He's like me. He's accessible.' And girls are like, 'Look how cuddly he is. I just want to cuddle up in his neck fat and go to sleep.'
‐‐ Adam DeVine

What happened to the Bush Administration regarding terrorism is that they regarded it as a secondary issue, and associated with Clinton. One of those Clinton issues.
‐‐ Sidney Blumenthal

What happened to the tradition of walking to school? The simple answer is change. Change in traffic patterns and street planning that have made school routes less pedestrian-friendly.
‐‐ Risa Lavizzo-Mourey

What happened was, I always wanted to be a singer/songwriter kind of guy like a James Taylor or Crosby, Stills and Nash type of thing; I went to a lot of coffee houses and used to watch all those guys, but I never had the nerve to get up and do it because singing seems so personal and intimate to me. It was too revealing.
‐‐ Kevin Nealon

What happened was I saw this ad for a yogurt plant for sale. It was in my junk mail pile, and I threw it into the garbage can. And then about half an hour later, with the dirt on it, I picked it up from the garbage can, and I called out of curiosity.
‐‐ Hamdi Ulukaya

What happened was, my parents after 'Circus Boy' decided to take me out of show business for two years to go back to normal school. It was the smartest thing they ever did.
‐‐ Micky Dolenz

What happened was very sad. Mr. Lacey told the staff that he was disappointed and appalled that the front of the book was all commentary and that he wanted hard news.
‐‐ Sydney Schanberg

What happened with Brexit was people taking back control.
‐‐ Paul Manafort

What happened with Hurricane Katrina was the American electorate was forced to look at what lay behind the veneer of chest-beating. We all saw the consequences of having terrible government leadership.
‐‐ Susan Faludi

What happened with Keystone is it actually poisoned the well for other pipelines that are not as controversial.
‐‐ Gene Green

What happens a lot in film, though not so much in the theatre, is that you get stroked and sort of massaged, like a little guinea pig.
‐‐ Cate Blanchett

What happens across the planet can have a greater impact on your family than what happens down the street.
‐‐ Marco Rubio

What happens also is that a lot of those people and reporters who vote for Hall of Famers, some of the people who were around when Ray Guy was around, are deceased. And some of the reporters don't remember Ray Guy. He should have been in the Hall of Fame 15 years ago.
‐‐ Gale Sayers

What happens at 50, more or less, you lose what you need to create another person, to sustain another person; you keep what you need to sustain yourself. And there's something wonderful about that.
‐‐ Gloria Steinem

What happens if you are the last (the very, very last) of your species, and you die - and humans notice? We live, increasingly, at a time when extinctions are recorded, remembered, and the last animal (or plant) in its line, by virtue of its being last, becomes a kind of celebrity. Its finality becomes a thing to honor.
‐‐ Robert Krulwich

What happens if you're the guy who's been on the show ten years and is highly paid but they have nothing for you to do is that they bring in other people, and you become a supporting character to those people.
‐‐ Ted Shackelford

What happens in a fantasy can be more involving than what happens in life, and thank goodness for that.
‐‐ Roger Ebert

What happens in Britain, what happens in the world, matters a lot to us in our core business.
‐‐ Satya Nadella

What happens in improv is you create your own storyline.
‐‐ J. B. Smoove

What happens in one region affects people across the world.
‐‐ Reuven Rivlin

What happens in the context of war is that, in order for you to make a child into a killer, you destroy everything that they know, which is what happened to me and my town. My family was killed, all of my family, so I had nothing.
‐‐ Ishmael Beah

What happens in the heart simply happens.
‐‐ Ted Hughes

What happens in the media is the cult of personality. The brands who have been forced to cut their staff have been forced to take on the brands of journalists.
‐‐ Fareed Zakaria

What happens in the music business is that if you step out of your little spot to do something else, the sand falls right into where you stood and you're gone, you're history.
‐‐ Nancy Sinatra

What happens in the Senate is the Republicans sink to the lowest common denominator.
‐‐ Jim DeMint

What happens in Vegas may stay in Vegas, but what happens in New Orleans, goes home with you.
‐‐ Laurell K. Hamilton

What happens is consciousness operates in mysterious ways. One of those ways is that the old paradigm suddenly starts to die.
‐‐ Deepak Chopra

What happens is I speak to people outside of my circle of friends and they have already formed an opinion of me based on the things that people have written. That is the effect of journalism on my life, and sometimes it isn't very pleasant.
‐‐ Robbie Williams

What happens is, in my own case - my own LLCs - the income flows to my personal tax return, whatever is left over after taxes are paid, I feed my family on the one hand, and on the other hand, I reinvest in my business.
‐‐ John Fleming

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.
‐‐ Ellen Glasgow